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Gosta Green Through Duddeston

Not sure to post this here.
This coincided with Queen Victoria's visit to an opening at aston Park on June 15th 1858.
Also see birminghamuk.net/history/ - Cached ( Sorry this does not work )
 
coal yard between nos 88 and 89 gt francis st....1950

cant recall seeing this one before...apologies if it has already been posted..can anyone identify the large chimney in the background...

pic courtesy of carl chinn

lyn
 
Hi Lyn

I think the chimney stack in your photo would be the Mill in Duddeston Mill rd. Not that I could swear to it, all I can ever remember it being is a paper recycling plant & paper mill. I'm sure others who lived down Saltley and Adderley Park at the bottom of Duddeston Mill would be able to help you more.

Phil
 
Lyn

I don't think there is much doubt (well not in my mind) that this is the stack to be seen in your photo.

Phil

DuddestonMillAdderleyRd.jpg
 
Phil would i be right in saying that Lyns photo would be on the section of Gt Francis St between Loxton St and Duddeston Mill Rd and that section of housing was demolished to build the houses between Melvina Rd and Little Hall Rd you would be looking out across Cato St and Devon St towards the Chimney. Dek
 
Dek

Since reading your post I have looked at this photo again, and as you say the positioning you give is the same as what I thought in the first place.

Lyn's photo of the coal yard is at 89 Great Francis St and this was indeed at the bottom of the hill near to Saltley Rd. It was in fact on the front of Court 10. On looking at another photo of the area taken during the building of the flats on Melvina Rd I can see another stack which is also a possibility. This stack looks to be in the region of the bottom of Cato Street.

I have to be honest, I have no recollection of this stack at all, do you remember it? I think there is a distinct possibility that it could also be this one.

VauxhallMelvinaRd19522.jpg

Phil
 
John

It certainly looks right, it's the one I first thought of because to be honest I don't remember the one to the left. I was just wondering if it was gone before I started to notice such things.

Phil
 
Now this is a photo I haven't seen before. It's Lawford St Recreation Ground off Vauxhall Rd. I played in this park many times as a child. It seems better equiped in 1928 than it was in 1958.

Phil

VauxhallLawfordStPark1928.jpg
 
a s wood said:
What a great photo
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Do you think the photo was set up, there seems to be a lot of children in the park at one time. It certainly must have been a school holiday. But they didn't have all the bomb sites and demolition sites to play on did they?

Phil
 
mariew said:
Smashing photo Phil, that slide is a high one.
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mariew

Do you remember when they were all hulking great high things? Today you would have health & safety dashing round fencing them off. Mind you I'm not so sure I would like my grandchildren using them. Perhaps I am being over cautious I used them and never came to any harm.

Phil
 
Yes your right Phil you don't see slides that high anymore, the only one I've seen that high is in the park by the Centurian in Chelmsley wood and that one is built into a hill so if you come off you'll just roll down the hill.
 
Phil Great photo
Marie I remember using them that high there was one in our local park, that's where the heroes of our time got their training for adventure and Biggles for his flying
 
Great photo to find Phil like you i spent many an hour down that park can,t say i remember that slide though all we had was a set of swings, a sea saw and a roundabout. i can see it,s an old photo which direction do you think the photos taken from. Dek
 
Dek

I was looking at that myself and trying to work it out. Given that the slope would have been away from Vauxhall Rd and at the downhill end would have been the Railway Viaduct and as neither of them are in the photo the view is obviously across the park.

Given the above facts I would say the photo was taken from St James St looking toward Lawford St. What do you think?

Phil
 
Morning Dek and Phil,
The view is from St. James Place I would say,as Phil says looking across the park.
Shadows coming from the left, hence probably around mid-day, if they were in the morning they would have been behind the chidren, if afternoon or evening in front children,no shadows
from right because that's north which is where Vauxhall Road is.
I've straightened it a bit Phil.
 
Evening all sorry i,ve been working thanks for the imfo i thought it was taken from St James place myself but the houses threw me as i could remember anything at all in Lawford St as i recall it was flattened ground. it nice to see how it was looking at that time it appears to be in courts although there was not much room between Lawford St and Lawley St.i also notice a house on the right which must have been on the near side of Vauxhall Rd as i recall the front edge of the park ran along ran along Vauxhall Rd and all the swings, the sea saw and roundabout were all up the top end so the old houses had been demolished. We had a thread open in January on Lawford St Postie put up a photo i have reposted it on this thread where it belongs. Dek
 
dek, They are about the same as Coleman Street but with a posher brewhouse.
Am I right in thinking this was the street that went to the park gate?
 
I can't get over how posh the brew-house window is, mind you it's obviously a later edition. It must have come from a school or a church.

Phil
 
John

I thought you realised, that's all most of these back courts in Nechells and Vauxhall consisted of. Two bedrooms upstairs a living room downstairs and a little scullery with a sink and cooker. We had 9 living in one of those rat holes until my the two oldest kids myself and my sister moved back to our grandmothers.

Phil
 
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